June 2015 Empties

Welcome to another empties post get ready as this is going to be a long one.

Meadow-Haul

DISCLAIMER: I am not trying to brag, I am just showing some of the items I recently bought on a trip to Meadowhall, and which may feature on the blog in the future.
Products with a * means they were a free gift.

Welcome to a haul post, on Monday I went to Meadowhall for a shopping trip (come on who doesn't love shopping).

The Body Shop Chocomania Lip Butter*

I love lip balm, and this one I have had for ages, my partner bought me it for Christmas one year and I have just started to use it (the pot put me off mainly). All I have to say is Shame On Me, this lip butter is fantastic I love the scent (I am a chocaholic, so this is always up my street).

The lip butter applies to the lips really well and this one gives a nice shine to lips while it also moisturises.

I have very dry lips so this helps to keep them moisturised and what surprised me about this lip butter is that once applied it stays on the lips for ages.

This is a great lip butter and at the moment one of my favourites, and one I will repurchase again in the future.

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Gemma
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The Body Shop Chocomania Body Scrub

I love The Body Shop, their products are amazeballs and they have some gorgeous scents, one o my favourites is the Chocomania range (I'm a chocoholic so I was always going to love this range).

I tried the Chocomania Body Scrub a couple of months ago (this can be found in an empties post here), this was only a trial size so there was only 2 uses of the scrub.

I put this scrub on dry as it gives a much deeper scrub, the scrub is a sugar scrub so not too abrasive when rubbing onto the skin.

With the scrub being such a dark brown, when applying to the skin you look like you've just had a mud bath, and there might be a brown ring round the plughole (I've not noticed this yet, but I am keeping my eyes peeled).

The scrub feels really lovely on the skin and once washed off leaves my skin feeling nice and smooth and gets rid of all the dead skin that has accumulated.

This is one of my favourite body scrubs and one I will be repurchasing again.

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Gemma
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The Body Shop Haul

DISCLAIMER: I am not bragging, just showing items that may be reviewed on the blog in the future. This is also just first impressions on the products not reviews.

I'm not a big fan of putting up haul posts as to me it seems like bragging (which I hate), but this one was just too good to miss. If you have The Body Shop app on your phone you may receive a message telling you that if you spend £50 in store or online, you get £25 off, I did so that was incentive enough for me (I think they are doing this online as well not just through the app, I am unsure about that though).

I bought:

Satsuma Shower Gel
This takes me back to my childhood, this is one of those Body Shop smells that I remember from being a kid (if they every stop selling this shower gel the world may just end)

Seaweed Mattifying Lotion
This is a new product I have never tried so this should be fun, I normally use Garnier's moisture match lotion but I am itching for a change so thought this was a good idea.

Honeymania Body Butter
I bought a small pot of this a couple of weeks ago and was waiting till the end of the month to purchase a bigger tub but with the offer I couldn't say no.

Chocomania Body Scrub
I had a small tub of this at Christmas (it was in an empties post a while ago), and it smelled lovely so I had to grab the bigger tub.

And because I already have quite a lot of body butters, and lotions to get through I also got my friend the Chocomainia Shower Gel and Body Butter, as like me she is a huge chocaholic.

I hope you like some of the products up there, and are there any Body Shop products that you love.

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Gemma
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Favourites: December 2013

Products noted with * were a gift (I would have still purchased these even if I hadn't received them as a gift.

December Favourites 2013

1. Passion Fruit Body Butter (The Body Shop) - I have had this body butter in the bathroom cupboard for ages and thought that I would use this once I finished up my chocomania body butter, and it smells lovely, and the scent stays on the skin for ages.
2. Deeply in Love (Nicole by O.P.I) - I bought this for my works Christmas Party, and it was so easy to apply with a thick brush and very pigmented.
3. Chocomania Eau De Toilette (The Body Shop)* - I love the chocomania range at The Body Shop and have been wanting this for ages, so when I received it for Christmas I was over the moon. It smells gorgeous and I have been wearing it non stop.
4. Baby Lips Hydrate (Maybelline) - I love the range of lip balms from the Baby Lips range, and hydrate goes in my bag, and really keeps my lips moisturised.
5. Mega Plush Volume Mascara (Maybelline) - I was very surprised how brilliant this was, the brush is quite plush, and the mascara clings to the lashes, it lengthened and they didn't clump.
6. Style Expertise Anti-Frizz Serum (Superdrug) - I was looking for a cheap alternative to the Frizz-ease anti serum and I found this from Superdrug, and really did work well on my hair.
7. 3-in-1 Formula Remove+ (Zoya) - This I found in a blog post by Vivianna Does Makeup, and thought the bottle looked fantastic and thought I would try the remover out see what it was like. This is fantastic works really well on glitter polish, removes it quite easily with only a tiny bit of work, I will re-use the bottle but I will also repurchase the remover again.
8. Bedazzled Anti Humidity Spray (Mark Hill) - I use this once I have straightened my hair just to keep the style in and so my hair doesn't frizz.
9. Matte Nail Effects (No7) - I have been looking for a matte top coat for a while and while I was in Boots, I saw this from their No7 range. I have tried it and I love it, it makes any nail polish look as if it was matte.
10. Honeymania Eau De Toilette (The Body Shop)* - This is a gorgeous scent, and one of my favourites so far of this year (I have been wanting this for ages) it smells so lovely and fresh like summer in a bottle.
11. Ginger Sparkle Body Polish (The Body Shop)* - This was a gift off of my partner but I love the Body Shop's Christmas ranges, and this body polish was fantastic, gave my skin a nice smooth feeling and gave of a fabulous smell of Ginger, very christmassy.

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Gemma

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Use Up December

I have set myself a task for December, use up any products that I have that are half empty. I've decided to do this for a couple of reasons:

a) Clear some space in my bathroom
b) Not to buy anymore skincare, haircare and so on until they are used up.

and

c) It's Christmas so I will probably get a shed load of smellies for Christmas, so will need the room for them.

A sample of the products that I have to use up are:-

• Shampoo
• A shed load of deodorants
• Body Sprays
• Dry Shampoo
• Nail Polish Remover
• Cotton Wool
• Moisturisers
• Bubble Bath
• Shower Gel

You will be able to catch up with how I am doing the beginning of January (I may post halfway through December to show you how I am doing)

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Gemma
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